Toward developing care outcome quality indicators for home care for older people: A prospective cohort study in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Care quality in Japan's long-term care (LTC) agencies, including home care, is the responsibility primarily of individual agencies, and the evaluation of service processes and outcomes is minimal.

Objectives

To describe the development of quality indicators for LTC (QIs-LTC) in Japan.

Methods

QIs-LTC were developed through literature review and expert panel discussions and then were piloted and used in a 2-year longitudinal survey. The survey (launched in September 2019) targeted older people receiving home care (n = 1450), their family members (n = 880), their professional home care providers (n = 577), and managers of home care agencies (n = 122).

Results

Across eight domains (maintaining dignity, minimizing symptoms and disease deterioration, ma

SUBMITTER: Eltaybani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503618 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature